Generating set movable upon rails



A. CCLLET.

GENERATING SET MOVABLE UPON RAILS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.2'8, 1915.

1,387,431. Patented Aug. 9, 1921.

2 SHEETSSHEET 1.

A. COLLET.

GENERATING SET MOVABLE UPON RAILS. 7

APPLICATION FILED APR-28, 1915. 1,387,431. Patented Aug. 9, 1921 2SHEETS-SHEET 2.

Q UNITED STATES PATENT "JOJFFICFEVQ ALBERT GOLLE'I, OF rams, FRANCE,TASSIGNOR TO socrnrn' MAURICE ET rrnnnn connn'r & cm, or PARIS,FRANCE.-.

GENERATINGSET MOVABLE upon Rains.

I Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 9, 1921. i Applicationfiled April28,191 5. Seria1No;24',617. r

(GRANTED UNDER THE rnov-rsrons on THE ACT or Manon s, 1e21, 41 STAT. n,1313.

To'allwhom' it may concern l Be it known that I, ALBERT Conner, acltlpzen of the Republic of France, residing in Paris, France, haveinvented certa n new and useful Improvements in Generat ng Sets tutes apowerful andlight source ofelectric energy (for power or light) andeasily transportable for use at any point along the railway. i

p This generating set mainly consistsof' two relatively light partseachwelghlng less than 250 kilogslin working order; the first "partcomprises the frame of drawn steeltubes mounted upon rollers with ballbearlngs and the continuous current generator; the second part consistsinthe oil or petrolexplosion engine, its flywheel,its;tank;-the-radlator,

the fan and an electricregul'ator.

This generating set is arranged so as to capable of adaptation todifferent widths of track by the movement of the rollers over thetransverse tubes of, the frame, and the dynamo is also mounted in such amanner as to allow of it being-moved away from the englne; I p

The engagement s effected instantaneously by a tightener roller movableto and nearer to or farther from the axis of the drive pulley of thegenerator.

allows of stopping the carriage 1n whatever A special. arrangement ofbrake direction the control handle of the saidbrake may be actuated.Moreover, the actlon of the brake is equally distributed over both the vblocked wheels. 7 l.

' Figures 1 and 2 represent respectlvely in side view and end view thegenerating set forming the subject of this invention.

Figs. 3, 3 and 4, 4 are side and top vlews of the brake drawn to alarger scale.

Fig. 5 is a diagram illustrating ill plan the working of thea'rrangement.

The generating set consists of 'ametal frame made 'of fourperpendlcularktubes the radiator f and the petrol'tank g. {The otherplatform (Z is designed to receive a tool chest; Tn the'lniddle ismounted by,

meansof movable clamping sleeves c'and.

bars 9', the electric generator provided with the hand rail 1 forholdingand carrying it.

The driving of the generator is effected by means of a band a passingover the fly whe'elf it of the engine and aroundthe pulley of thegenerator in. A roller p serves to give the required tension andpassageto the band and is mounted upon the generator in such 'a mannerthat lt-can rock around the shaft 9 and thus cause the instantaneousengage" ment or disengagementof the band In order to vary the distanceofthe'shafts of the engine and generatorit is only neces-. saryto loosenthe nuts of the sleeves c and to move the generator along the tubes 6-?of the'frame. I

One of the portions of the-frame of the. generating set, that isfto say,the tubular frame with the generator can be carried by four men holdingthe ends of the frame, while the engine and its accessories are car.

ried by lifting them by means ofthe bars m above referred to. i 9

Moreover, a special braking arrangement allows 'ofxstopping' thecarriage by acting upon one pair of wheels upon the same axle or uponthe other pair according as the rotation ofthe' driving wheel iseffected in .one dlrectlon or the other.

This result is easily obtained by the following arrangement A shaft aactuated by a crank handle at each end can turn and slide in bearings 0This shaft a is provided with two screwthreads of opposite hand 0 0 onwhich One ofthese two ring nuts h h can move. rlngs k for-example, bymeans of a stud or therefore to wheels.

finger moves a fork f fixed to a lever jointed at 9 This lever isconnected by a shaft/1'1 to the connecting rod Z 011 which aremounted-the shoes m and n acting upon two wheels of the same rail. Theoperation is as follows:-

Supposing the rotation of the shaft a is effected so as to move the nuth upon the shaft 0: in the direction of the arrow 7, Figs. 4 and 5, theother nut operated by a thread of opposite hand will move in theopposite direction. It will be seen, therefore, that the movementtransmitted through the medium ot the forks and leverswill cause thetightening of the shoe m If, at this moment the other shoe of the sameaxle is not yet blocked, the rotation of the shaft'oa continuing in thesame. direction, the nut 7L having become fixed, there will follow amovement of translation from a in this nut in reverse direction of thearrow, the effect of which'movement 1s to increase tl16llSPlEiC61I18Iltof the nut 71, and

second shoe;

If on the contrary, the shaft a hasbeen Claims i 1. A mobile electrlcltygenerating set for use on rails and adapted for quick removal ,engineand generatonw a v v x 2. A; mobile electrlclty generating set forcontribute to the locking ofthe upon the two blocked' an electricgenerator on, said carri e, and

- u a (a u a detachable driving connection between said use on railsandadaptedfor quick removal from the 1 rails, comprlslng a carriage, amanually removable internal combustion engine unit removably seated onsaid carriage,an electric generator on said carriage, abelt connectingsaid engine and generator,

and a displaceable roller for tensioning the belt, said rollerpermitting of the ready loosening and displacement 'o't the belt andconsequent'quickremoval of the engine unit. a v3. A 'mobileelectricitygenerating set for use on rails and. adapted for quick removal from therails, comprising a carriage, an internal combustion engine unit'removably seated on said carriage, an electric generator on saidcarriage'and a driving connection between said engine and generator,said carriage comprising a plurality of parallelbars, said electricgenerator being adjustably mounted onsaid bars witlrrelation to theengine-unitM 1 J 4-. i A mobile electricity generating set for use onrails and'adapted for quick removal from the rails, comprising acarriage, a manually removable [internal combustion engine unitremovably seated on said carriage, said engine unit having'handlesadapted to be driving connection.v between generator.

said engine a and in witness-whereof I have hereunto signed my nameinthepresence of twosubscribing witnesses, 1 y r I I i V ALBEBT COLLET.fWitnessesp r i I DE W, PooLn,'-Jr,, GA RIEL BELLIARD.

